GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
I am excited for this year's Google Summer of Code, and I have a project in mind that I am working to propose. I am a CS major and have experience with Qt, C++ and shell scripting. I have been developing on FreeBSD for several years, and I am looking to tackle developing a new Qt front-end for the freebsd-update command. I am thinking a rather straight-forward user interface with more advanced options available (such as selecting a specific server). I am looking for constructive feedback, and also a developer interested in mentoring me this Summer. Thanks everyone for your time, and for your hard work. Justin Muniz ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
On 14 April 2013 07:11, Justin Edward Muniz justin.mu...@maine.edu wrote: I am excited for this year's Google Summer of Code, and I have a project in mind that I am working to propose. I am a CS major and have experience with Qt, C++ and shell scripting. I have been developing on FreeBSD for several years, and I am looking to tackle developing a new Qt front-end for the freebsd-update command. I am thinking a rather straight-forward user interface with more advanced options available (such as selecting a specific server). I am looking for constructive feedback, and also a developer interested in mentoring me this Summer. Thanks everyone for your time, and for your hard work. Are you referring to the suggestion below? https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#KDE_front-ends_to_the_freebsd-update.288.29utility Colin Percival (CCd) mentions he would be the technical contact for this project, though that was five years ago-- perhaps he'd like to comment. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 02:11:44AM -0400, Justin Edward Muniz wrote: I am excited for this year's Google Summer of Code, and I have a project in mind that I am working to propose. I am a CS major and have experience with Qt, C++ and shell scripting. I have been developing on FreeBSD for several years, and I am looking to tackle developing a new Qt front-end for the freebsd-update command. I am thinking a rather straight-forward user interface with more advanced options available (such as selecting a specific server). I am looking for constructive feedback, and also a developer interested in mentoring me this Summer. If you want to work on freebsd-update, I think it will be more useful to improve freebsd-update itself. Some issues are: * It is not particularly robust in the face of errors (such as a full disk). From reading the documentation, you might get the impression that it is better than it actually is. The state for the rollback command is only set up after installation of the update so that command is not useful for backing out a partially installed update. * The upgrade feature takes large amounts of time and network bandwidth. * Less required user interaction would be nice. Think of upgrading many machines. * freebsd-update and pkgng are two upgrade systems. Perhaps freebsd-upgrade should be scrapped altogether in favour of a pkgng-based solution. If you want to write GUIs, perhaps a pkgng GUI is more interesting. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
I am a CS major and have experience with Qt, C++ and shell scripting. I have been developing on FreeBSD for several years, and I am looking to tackle developing a new Qt front-end for the freebsd-update command. spend your time for something more useful :) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
Thank you for your advice! I have already sent an email to Colin, and I did indeed take the idea from that page. Justin Muniz On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 14 April 2013 07:11, Justin Edward Muniz justin.mu...@maine.edu wrote: I am excited for this year's Google Summer of Code, and I have a project in mind that I am working to propose. I am a CS major and have experience with Qt, C++ and shell scripting. I have been developing on FreeBSD for several years, and I am looking to tackle developing a new Qt front-end for the freebsd-update command. I am thinking a rather straight-forward user interface with more advanced options available (such as selecting a specific server). I am looking for constructive feedback, and also a developer interested in mentoring me this Summer. Thanks everyone for your time, and for your hard work. Are you referring to the suggestion below? https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#KDE_front-ends_to_the_freebsd-update.288.29utility Colin Percival (CCd) mentions he would be the technical contact for this project, though that was five years ago-- perhaps he'd like to comment. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
On 14 April 2013 11:42, Justin Edward Muniz justin.mu...@maine.edu wrote: Thank you for your advice! I have already sent an email to Colin, and I did indeed take the idea from that page. I think GUI front ends to freebsd-update, portsnap, or pkgng would all be useful. One thing I would look into though, is what PC-BSD offers. They may already have similar things. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
I think GUI front ends to freebsd-update, portsnap, or pkgng would all be useful. One thing I would look into though, is what PC-BSD offers. They may already have similar things. Very interesting, I am checking out the source for PC-BSD's updater to study it. Portsnap and pkgng seem like interesting projects, would it be bizarre to combine functionality into one GUI? I need to do more research on pkgng, I am more familiar with the other commands. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Justin Edward Muniz justin.mu...@maine.edu wrote: I think GUI front ends to freebsd-update, portsnap, or pkgng would all be useful. One thing I would look into though, is what PC-BSD offers. They may already have similar things. Very interesting, I am checking out the source for PC-BSD's updater to study it. Portsnap and pkgng seem like interesting projects, would it be bizarre to combine functionality into one GUI? I need to do more research on pkgng, I am more familiar with the other commands. Please don't mix the two, they are related but their usages do not really overlap. portsnap(8) only deals with keeping the ports(7) tree and the /usr/ports/INDEX file up to date. PKGNG (like the old pkg_* tools) is mostly concerned with registering built ports as packages or installing pre-built packages in the system. Some functionality of it does use the ports tree but it does not depend on it. I have to also ask, what would a GUI offer that the command line tools do not offer at the moment? -Kimmo ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
On 14 April 2013 12:15, Kimmo Paasiala kpaas...@gmail.com wrote: I have to also ask, what would a GUI offer that the command line tools do not offer at the moment? A GUI. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: On 14 April 2013 12:15, Kimmo Paasiala kpaas...@gmail.com wrote: I have to also ask, what would a GUI offer that the command line tools do not offer at the moment? A GUI. That's kind of given :D But does FreeBSD lack a GUI for ports/packages management? I don't see many requests for such things on the FreeBSD forums or on the mailing lists. -Kimmo ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Kimmo Paasiala kpaas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: On 14 April 2013 12:15, Kimmo Paasiala kpaas...@gmail.com wrote: I have to also ask, what would a GUI offer that the command line tools do not offer at the moment? A GUI. That's kind of given :D But does FreeBSD lack a GUI for ports/packages management? I don't see many requests for such things on the FreeBSD forums or on the mailing lists. It seems we already have something similar in the ports[1] collection. There is also a newer version[2] using Qt4 but it seems more limited. It might be worth a look at those first. [1] ports-mgmt/kports [2] ports-mgmt/kports-qt4 -Kimmo ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
Please don't mix the two, they are related but their usages do not really overlap. portsnap(8) only deals with keeping the ports(7) tree and the /usr/ports/INDEX file up to date. PKGNG (like the old pkg_* tools) is mostly concerned with registering built ports as packages or installing pre-built packages in the system. Some functionality of it does use the ports tree but it does not depend on it. Yes, that does make sense; thank you for your input. A set of GUIs seems like the way to go, the reason why I considered combining them is for convenience. I am still learning about pkgng, but I do understand that it does not replace ports package management tools. A front-end could certainly add or combine functionality for convenience, but some admins run multiple operating systems and may have to reference notes before updates. And some newer users might prefer a GUI for some of these common commands. Justin Muniz ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
It seems we already have something similar in the ports[1] collection. There is also a newer version[2] using Qt4 but it seems more limited. It might be worth a look at those first. [1] ports-mgmt/kports [2] ports-mgmt/kports-qt4 Yes, I just found those GUI programs myself. No sense reinventing the wheel; I will check out the functionality and make sure I don't overlap. I am most interested in a GUI front-end for updating binary updates to the base system. Thank you for taking your time to help! I will keep researching current GUI projects and make sure this is worthwhile. Everyone has given me much to work with, I appreciate it all. Justin Muniz ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Justin Edward Muniz justin.mu...@maine.edu wrote: It seems we already have something similar in the ports[1] collection. There is also a newer version[2] using Qt4 but it seems more limited. It might be worth a look at those first. [1] ports-mgmt/kports [2] ports-mgmt/kports-qt4 Yes, I just found those GUI programs myself. No sense reinventing the wheel; I will check out the functionality and make sure I don't overlap. I am most interested in a GUI front-end for updating binary updates to the base system. Thank you for taking your time to help! I will keep researching current GUI projects and make sure this is worthwhile. Everyone has given me much to work with, I appreciate it all. Justin Muniz Could you also take a look at how security/pinentry-* ports offer multiple ways to implement a GUI for a simple service, it offers a curses, QT and GTK frontends to pinentry. -Kimmo ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
GSOC and Contribution to open source.
Hi , I am interested in participating for GSOC -2013 . I am interested in following ideas CPU online/offline project BHyVe BIOS emulation to boot legacy systems I have two years of work exp in linux kernel device driver,C now I have selected master thesis as virtualization so I would be interested in contributing to this field . and I have no prior experience in open source so I would be really thankful if anyone could guide me how to start contributing to the world of open source. Regards, santosh. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
